Jinghui Niu <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, I've been studying python 3 modules. I'm a bit confused about the
> possibly overlap between fnmatch() and glob(), they seem to achieve
> the same goals exactly. Why duplicate?
From the module documentation:
Note that unlike fnmatch.fnmatch(), glob treats filenames beginning
with a dot (.) as special cases.
<URL:https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html>
So the goals are different: ‘glob.glob’ has the goal of matching closer
to the Unix meaning of glob patterns, where filenames starting with a
“.” character are conventionally treated as “hidden by default”.
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